Retail · registry year 2024 · HQ TX
Sport Clips Franchise
A Sport Clips Inc brand operating in the retail sector, franchising since 1995. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Sport Clips, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $263K – $467K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 1,900
- Total locations · Large network
- $450K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry sport-clips Sport Clips
Sport Clips needs $263K–$467K to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical retail franchise.
- LO $263K
- HI $467K
- FEE $25K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 1,900
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #88/223
- UNT# #60/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: AlphaGraphics ($258K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Sport Clips (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent Sport Clips's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 2.6% net unit growth (YoY) 50/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 disclosed 100/100 · A
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where Sport Clips's investment ranks nationally
Sport Clips's listed Item 7 low of $263K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
Sport Clips vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$263,000 Around the middle lower than 39% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
- Franchise Fee
- $25K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 5.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $450K
- gross revenue per location
* Revenue figures are gross revenue (sales), not profit. This registry does not report operating costs or profit.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
50 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Retail
- Subsector
- hair salon
- Founded
- 1993
- Franchising Since
- 1995
- Headquarters
- TX
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Sport Clips
This Sport Clips page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Sport Clips.
National footprint registry read for Sport Clips
Signature read: 1,900 locations · Item 7 low $263K
Sport Clips, a Sport Clips Inc franchise, has been franchising since 1995 - 2 years after the concept was founded in 1993 , currently with 1,900 total locations (1,900 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the retail sector, headquartered in TX. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $263K to $467K, with separate listed low and high values. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $25K and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
Ongoing royalties run 6.0% of gross sales; the registry also records a 5.0% advertising-fund field, for a 11.0% arithmetic total. Sport Clips has an Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry, a voluntary disclosure under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $450K; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $27K, which is not a total-cost or profit calculation. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
Sport Clips's network is expanding: unit count grew at a 2.6% net rate over the past year (100 openings, 50 closures). This is a reported network-size change, not a measure of profitability, demand, or franchisee outcomes.
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Related reading for Sport Clips: Understanding FDDs , Sport Clips lists Item 19 revenue here, how Item 19 fits the 23-item FDD.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How Sport Clips's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Sport Clips , both outside HQ state TX : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($263K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (1,900 here).
What to do with this
Sport Clips at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Sport Clips scores 75/100 (C) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $263K – $467K entry cost runs below the typical retail franchise.
- Ranks #88 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- AlphaGraphics sits at a comparable investment level ($258K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
Source: PlainFranchise editorial registry Record-level FDD source link and retrieval date pending
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